I would love to see (some version of) both the original proposal and this one. They would make IEx a lot more useful.
Thanks, Simon St.Laurent *Introducing Elixir* On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:15 AM Stefan Chrobot <ste...@chrobot.io> wrote: > This is a nice proposal, but I'd rather have this go all the way and allow > me to pull Hex packages while maintaining the current IEx session, so > something like: > > $ iex --hex > iex> Something.deps_get :some_http_client, "1.0.0" > iex> SomeHttpClient.get(...) > > > Best, > > Stefan > > pon., 15 cze 2020 o 10:47 Abdullah Esmail <abdullah.esm...@gmail.com> > napisał(a): > >> Hello, >> >> I believe it would be extremely helpful to old and new elixir developers >> to be able to try out packages without the need to create a whole project. >> Developers coming from different backgrounds (python, ruby, etc) are used >> to getting into the interactive shell and just importing/requiring the >> package they need and start playing with it. >> >> I don't know if this is technically possible with iex, but it would >> definitely change how I work with elixir in general. >> >> Something like: >> iex --hex <package1> <package2> >> >> Even if it takes longer to start, at least I could try those packages >> without creating a dummy project and including those packages as >> dependencies and then compiling everything. >> One command to rule them all. >> >> Maybe `iex --hex` could create a temporary dummy project behind the >> scenes? >> >> For what it's worth, I'd be *very* willing to help work on implementing >> this if it's going to happen. >> >> I apologize if this has been discussed or brought up before. I couldn't >> find a similar topic. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/40ef0ab9-7d92-4601-b445-de7c5796c046o%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/40ef0ab9-7d92-4601-b445-de7c5796c046o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CACzMe7bTc_rfzwneWVruKYghGRePynjRAgXYXQGqTP_zon17hw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CACzMe7bTc_rfzwneWVruKYghGRePynjRAgXYXQGqTP_zon17hw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CACFVvQd5ZAHQ%3DEE7U08CMB8vb219OsY%2BiT-XZyTQFjRZ-bMt%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
